You don't need fancy lighting to have a beautifully planted tank. Just pick the right plants to suit your lighting. Also, the low light plants don't need CO2 either, which keeps the maintenance low. Here's a couple of good links:
High amounts of light are good, otherwise you are very limited in what plants you can keep but it doesn't need to be anything nuts. I keep planted tanks with as little as 1 watt per gallon, and one of my tanks is 2ft deep.